- ISBN13: 9780841608658
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Mobil Travel Guide offers 15 Regional Travel Planners for 2008, featuring extensive reviews of destinations to visit in the United States and Canada. Updated annually, each book features in depth profiles of the best lodgings, restaurants, sights and attractions that each easily drivable region has to offer. Comprehensive and easy to use, each Regional Travel Guide is full of exciting new tours and loaded with maps…. More >>
Mobil Travel Guide 2009 Northwest
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#1 by American Express on May 5, 2010 - 3:21 pm
I was more than happy with receiving the Mobil Travel Guide from 1999 as it is the best thing you can have when you are traveling across the country.
It tells the history of each state and an outline of each city, sightseeing, hotels, motels and restaurants. It informs you of which hotels have washers and driers which is a big help when on a long cross country trip….you shouldn’t leave home with out them!!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by A. Friedman on May 5, 2010 - 5:48 pm
I rarely bother to write negative reviews, but I can’t remember a worse travel book. There’s more info in the ad brochures in hotel lobbies than in this dead weight. (2009 ed.)
The index never had anything we were looking for (e.g. Olympic National Park or Port Townsend) even though they are covered in the text.
Most cities rate one brief paragraph (maybe 2 sentences) and a few hotel listings. The hotel price ratings are one to four dollar signs, with a single $ for anything under $150.
They list plenty of one-star hotels, and it appears that the star rating is for overall quality rather than (the more useful) value per dollar. Instead, we used our (low end) GPS, which had a much superior hotel listing.
Olympic National Park got four paragraphs–half a page, and the San Juan Islands got three paragraphs, one devoted to the 1859 Pig War.
We never got a single helpful bit of information out of this useless book.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Sylviastel on May 5, 2010 - 6:50 pm
Like too many chefs who spoil a meal, this book has too many states crammed into one book. Alaska is the largest of all states and has the biggest coastline. Alaska itself could have it’s own book and bearly scratch the surface of the state’s awesome beauty, majestic scenery, views, etc. Alaska is in a world of it’s own compared to the lower 48 states because it’s populated more by wildlife than people and some parts haven’t been touched by humans as well. Even though I saw a small part of Alaska on the inside passage cruise, there is no way that you can elaborate the state in such as small amount of time.
Besides the Alaska book, the Mobil authors could have developed a book for Washington, Oregon, and Idaho that would have been more detailed, effective, and better described. Much like the other Mobil books, this book is poor in maps or details about the location. They briefly explain each state like Washington which Seattle could have had a better map and been more detailed in explaining the city’s attributes. Much can be said for the other cities in this book. I wouldn’t spend the price that they are asking for here for this edition because the quality is not worth it.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Richard S. Cohn on May 5, 2010 - 7:14 pm
I had borrowed an older edition of the Mobil Guide for this area from the local library. Compared to the current edition (from Amazon), the older edition was in larger format, with more pages, and contained much more valuahle information than the current edition, which is a pale shadow by comparison. I wrote to the publisher several weeks ago and have yet to get an answer.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by Brenda Murphy on May 5, 2010 - 9:46 pm
I was looking for a good travel book that listed out of the way places as well as big name destinations and this one fit the bill. It includes the usual hotels and restaurants as well as entertainment venues. I was surprised to see a business on a Pacific Ocean fishing pier with rod and tackle rental! Silly as it seems, that’s what sold me on this book enough to purchase online. I was not disappointed when it arrived. All along our travel route were listed a plethora of side trips and interesting things to see and do. It reminded me of when I was a child and my father would always have some sort of travel book for our annual vacation excusions. More often than not, he ended up purchasing a Mobil travel book. It’s nice to know that some things just don’t change. I can’t wait to start this vacation!
Rating: 4 / 5